What do you want to be good at?

Writing fiction is a complex task, with lots of moving parts. Lots of people recognize this, but never really stop to think about what that means in terms of actually doing the writing.

There are three questions that anyone faced with an incredibly complex job would likely find useful to think about up front. They are:

What am I good at? What do I need to be good at? What do I want to be good at?

What am I good at?

Which parts of this job do you already know how to do well? Everybody is good at something, even if it’s som...